Mitchell Stern, who has been chairman and CEO of Fox Television Stations Group for a decade, will run DirecTV when News Corp.’s acquisition is completed in the next few weeks, News Corp. announced Friday. Lachlan Murdoch, the News Corp. deputy…
The legal battle between Rainbow Programming’s American Movie Classics and Time Warner Cable has implications that go beyond the vitriolic charges filed in a $250 million lawsuit (TelevisionWeek, Nov. 17). The lawsuit charged that Time Warner Cable improperly announced termination…
Classrooms with too few books. Teachers with too many students. Students with plummeting test scores. It’s all part of the chronic underfunding of U.S. public schools.But there’s a bright spot, and it’s coming from that TV set at the front…
Thanks to cable, off-network dramas are selling better than ever. When Universal brought “Law & Order” to cable on A&E in 1994, the much-coveted NBC franchise player-now airing as many as five times a day on TNT-led a resurgence of…
You could call it video-on-de-Mandarin. Citing the fast growth of the foreign-language-speaking population in the United States, Cablevision Systems’ Rainbow Media Holdings is introducing new services featuring an array of programming from overseas, including China and Russia. Gregg Hill, executive…
The 77th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off the holiday season Thursday at 9 a.m. (ET) with live entertainment and more than 200 parade elements, including bands, cheerleaders, helium balloons and colorful floats. It starts with Tom Turkey and…
Last week I probably ruined the holidays for some people by dishing out my awards for the biggest turkeys in TV technology. So to even things up, I want to give thanks for the industry’s greatest accomplishments. In the spirit…
A quartet of talk shows, most of the newsmagazines and a pair of court shows earned new season highs during the first full week of November sweeps, according to Nielsen Media Research.After suffering some West Coast pre-emptions the previous week…
“There is such a wide spectrum of talk formats, from network to syndication to cable, it’s impossible to characterize them all together. Hosts, guests and topics range from the sublimely thoughtful and thought-provoking to the ridiculously provocative, trivial or offensive….
PBS flagship station WGBH-TV in Boston unveiled a digital asset management center earlier this month that is designed to serve as a test lab for the television industry.The multimillion-dollar facility is also critical to the future of WGBH because it…